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Custom for 'La-Fheil-Bride', c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/29
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Custom for 'La-Fheil-Bride' [La Feille Bhride, St Bridget's Day] in which a person was sent to the strand to bring home a partan [crab] which was then placed in the middle of the house. If the crab went towards the upper end of the house, the family would remain in the house but if it went towards the door, it indicated that they would have to leave.

Dates: c1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra on saints days, 25 September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/109
Scope and Contents Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] on saints days including that on La Fheill Barra [St Barr's Day] and St Michael's Day [La Fheill Mìcheil] men would race horses three times round the cemetery at Cille Bharra and at Borve [Borgh] respectively. The man would always have a woman sitting behind him. Also, after mass on the Sunday, girls would dig up wild carrots and collect them in the pockets of a while plaid with red stripes. The cloth...
Dates: 25 September 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom on La Fheill Brìde [St Bride's Day], 20 November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/12
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Custom on La Fheill Brìde [St Bride's Day] that people went to the beach and brought back a crab [partan] which was placed in the middle of the floor. If the crab 'went to uac[hd]ar an tai[gh]' [the top of the house] 'the man re[mained] on the lar am bliana, if he went to the door he left'. Carmichael notes that hte custom is 'Not now done.'

Dates: 20 November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom relating to La Fheill Brìde [St Bride's Day], 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/1
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Custom relating to La Fheill Brìde [St Bride's Day] describing how Mrs Major MacLeod also known as 'Major Ann', the daughter of Flora MacDonald, removed the stocking from her foot and pounded a piece of peat on the doorstep while reciting a verse beginning 'An diu[gh] la [Fhe]ill Bride, Thig nigh[ean] Imhair as an toll'. Text has been scored through in ink perhaps to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Customs relating to girls and marriage, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/30
Scope and Contents Customs relating to girls and marriage including 'goid a chail', which takes place on Là Samhna [All Hallows' Day], and in which a girl puts 'cal' under her pillow and if she sees her lover taking the cal from under her pillow she is to be married to him that year. Also, a girl is blindfolded and made to choose a plate from three which contain earth, water and salt respectively. The earth plate means death, the salt bitterness and the water marriage. Lastly the girls throw their belts...
Dates: c1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [St Michael's Day], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/117
Scope and Contents

Customs relating to La Fheill Mìcheil [Là Fhèill Mhìcheil or St Michael's Day/Michaelmas] including that 'glac churran' [load of carrots] was given to the lad who gave the 'culag' [piggy-back]; that wives were not allowed at the [horse] race; and that 'Struan Mìcheil' was made of 'glas[s] of whisky black carrowy yolk of egg'.

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1864-1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW107
Scope and Contents

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing an essay entitled 'Bards and Bardism of the Highlands'; some notes on archaeology in Barra [Barraigh], Vatersay [Bhatarsaigh] and Sandray [Sanndraigh]; Fenian songs and poems; songs and poems relating to the MacDonalds; and a story entitled 'Prince Charlie's Pipe' mostly collected from South Uist [Uibhist a Deas] and Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla].

Dates: 1864-1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of a story about a man on La Brianan, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/71
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a story about a man ploughing on La Brianan [St Brendan's Day]. The little text that there is here is unclear.

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Fragment of a verse beginning 'La ill Mhic thig an riogh as an toll', 17 October 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/81
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Fragment of a verse collected from an unnamed informant probably in Tolstadh Bho Thuath [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis], beginning 'La [Fhe]ill[e] Mhic[heil] thig an riogh as an toll, Mar buinn mise dhan riogh.' There are five lines to the verse.

Dates: 17 October 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Legend about the wren and the Irish army, 4 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/6
Scope and Contents Legend about the dreolan or wren and the Irish army that when the English were asleep and the Irish were about to attack them during the night [at the Battle of the Boyne] the wren began eating crumbs on the drummer's head, waking him up and allowing him to alert the English to the attack. Consequently, 'the irish take a day in the year to kill the Dreathan (wren (St Pat[rick]?)' [referring to Wren Day or St Stephen's Day, 26 December]. Text has been scored through in pencil perhaps to...
Dates: 4 June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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